samsty1

Hi,

I want to find somewhere to host a website for me. I also will need to register a domain name.

www.3ix.com - 3iX provides reliable web hosting, 1 dollar web hosting, cheap web hosting looks way to cheap to be true. Has anyone here had dealings with them before?? I'm just a little sus..

Thanks for your replies!

cwispy

Typical of a lot of these places, a quick lookup shows the hosting is co-located

OrgName: HostDime.com, Inc.
Address: 189 South Orange Avenue
Address: Suite 1500S
City: Orlando
StateProv: FL
PostalCode: 32801
Country: US

So your not only at the mercy of the one your paying, but also at the mercy of the company they are paying for the services. In the end you get two companies who oversubscribe their services to make money cause they don't charge enough.

This is just my own opinion of course.

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3iX reviews
uptime & reliability
0.40

server & connection speed
1.50

technical support & knowledge
1.40

customer service & billing
4.90

price value for money
2.30

* ratings are out of 10
They ought to be called XXX!!

I have only been hosted with these people for a month now - in fact, my 30 days (in which I could get my money back) have just passed. Wouldn't you know that today of all days, my site goes down AGAIN? I just left a webhost because of constant downtimes and ignoring my support tickets, but I was optimistic about this one.

In the past month, my site has been screwed up at least 3 times. The first time, they "fixed" it, and I couldn't log in to Cpanel or even SEE my own site! I recently lost all of my PHP scripts - "Oh, it must have been a hacker. Sorry, you'll have to start all over". And all this in just the first month! I can't imagine what's going to happen if I continue to let them take advantage of me for a year!

They promise 99.9% uptime. Apparently, you have to pick one of their more expensive plans in order to get even half of that. Even if this just so happens to be a bad month for weather or servers or what not, their general opinion is that I did something wrong, or it must be a fault on my end. I just might end up going back to my old host after all.

Biggest Pro: good amount of space/bandwidth for the cost
Biggest Con: 99.9% DOWNTIME

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lee

a mate of mine has been using www.hostgater.com with no issues so far and my domain is also hosted there as well.
Netregistry || || Join over 150, 000 Australian customers with Web Hosting, Domain names & eCommerce, Dedicated Servers and Online Marketing in Australia often offer cheap specials for domain registrations, ( i have several there) so thats worth a look too, but a bit dear for hosting.

3xdragon

Yes at 20 bucks I got 12mths and a domain name also 3ix offer more space and traffic than the others listed above. I haven't had any downtime yet.
My gripe is they make a big deal over NO hidden costs, Well there is, if you want a secure site they want you to pay extra for a dedicated ip and when I asked support why I cant access shared ssl they told me flatly you have to pay for dedicated ssl. I pointed out their online boasts and after about a week they agreed to install shared ssl..F*ckers
Still at 15 x less the price of the so called cheap offers above you still get more, I mean 1 boasts 100mb space big whoop, 3ix is 10gig..

PhillTheQuad

im with the gator, not a problem
net registry, well @ $20 sumthing per .com or 50 per .au
they'd wanna be good.
.coms are 10$ nowadays
just mho

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